In two days we will finally find out what degree of power the Racism, Rape and Treason Party will exercise in the United States for the next four years. It’s plain that they will not win the Presidency — patriotic Americans have sensed an imminent threat to the country, and are turning out in record numbers to defend it — but what really matters is whether or not the RR&T (Republican) Party will retain control of the House of Representatives. A generation of systematic voter suppression and district gerrymandering has allowed the Republicans to control the House, repeatedly holding the American people to ransom and obstructing any kind of rational administration. If they retain this power, there will be four years of relentless obstruction of the kind that Americans have become accustomed to in the last eight years. Republicans have no claim to being patriots: the well-being of the American people will always be the last thing they are concerned with. They are driven by a totalitarian ideology that has fused older elements originating in America with Communism and Fascism imported from Europe. Those who delude themselves into thinking that Donald Trump is some sort of aberration in his party need to wake up. Trump is the natural, logical and inevitable consequence of Conservative ideology in exactly the same way that Stalin was the natural, logical and inevitable consequence of Marxist ideology. Everything that Trump has done in this election is something that the Republican Party has done before, every slogan he shouts and every slimy tactic he employs are straight out of the long-term Republican playbook. Trump will probably not succeed in his dream of destroying America and turning it into a sleazy, Putin-KGB style dictatorship, but the Republican Party will not stop their ideological crusade with his failure, and their ambition is exactly the same as Trump’s. They will keep on trying. Americans will not be safe from the specter of tyranny until the Republican Party is completely erased from their lives.
This does not mean that the Democratic Party is anything admirable. It has absorbed most of the creepy elements of Conservative ideology. The Clinton administration of the 1990s adopted most of Conservative crackpot economic theory. Its repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act and passing of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act laid the groundwork for the subsequent Republican global recession. Hilary Clinton is not the demon she is portrayed as, but she clearly represents the oligarchical and Conservative elements of the Democratic Party, and cannot be depended on to do anything to lessen the power of the rich, which is the cancer eating away at America. But there is a great difference between a corrupt, aging aristocratic regime and a dynamic totalitarian movement. The Romanov monarchy and the shaky Weimar Republic were not anything to boast of, but the Communist and National Socialist dictatorships that displaced them were a thousand times more horrible. The Republican Party embraces and promotes such a menacing totalitarian ideology, and has been working away diligently to impose it on America. Like all such ideologies, Conservatism channels the energies and resentments of disparate groups, gives them scapegoats to hate, and employs a mish-mosh of contradictory slogans, propaganda lies, and pseudo-intellectual arguments that can be deployed or negated at any time. But the underlying principle is straightforward: if the Leader enters the room, get down on your hands and knees and suck his dick. There is really nothing else to it. Viewing any ten minute segment of a Trump rally makes this perfectly clear. It’s an ideology for snivelling cowards. But there are a lot of snivelling cowards out there.
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